Event 1 - Porto

March 21- World Day of Poetry. "Árvore" school.

Participating schools:

Schools from Portugal

Escola Artística e Profissional “Árvore” (Porto)

Escola Carolina Michaëlis (Porto)

Agrupamento Escolar de Murça

Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo

Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho

Schools from Galice

IES Luis Seoane (Pontevedra)- LS

IES Pedra da Auga (Ponteareas) - PA

IES Pazo da Mercé (As Neves) - AN

1:08 a 1:22: First speeches

1:08 to 1:14: Horácio Gomes Lourenço, Director of the Escola Artística Profissional “Árvore” from Porto (Portugal)

1:14 to 1:16: Xabier Prado, teacher at the IES Pedra da Auga secondary school in Ponteareas (Galicia)

1:16 to 1:22: César Pérez Ares, Territorial Delegate for Education in Pontevedra, representing the General Secretary for Language Politics of the Galician Autonomous Government.

1:22 a 1:38: UNESCO-ASP National Coordinators from Spain and Portugal

1:22 to 1:29: Rufina Moreno, UNESCO-ASP National Coordinator from Spain

1:30 to 1:39: Manuela Galhardo, UNESCO-ASP National Coordinator from Portugal

1:41 to 1:55: Poems in various languages, presented with international signs by students from Galicia.

1:40: Presentation by Luisa Márquez, Coordinator from Galicia

1:41: UNESCO schools (slogans)- LS

1:44: Adeus Ríos (Farewell Rivers, Rosalía de Castro)- PA

1:45:30 La Ronde (in French) -AN

1:46:40: Falemos de ti (Let´s speak about you, in Galician) -LS

1:47:50: Azul e Branco (Blue and White, in Chinese) -PA

1:49:20: Al foutua al uma (arabic poem) (dedicated to the Coordinator from Spain due to her andalusian origin)- LS

1:51:20- Ana Amshi (I Walk), (song in Arabic)- PA

1:52:50- Irmaus (Brothers, Celso Emilio Ferreiro)- AN

1:53:40 - Jambo Bwana (greeting song in swahili) - PA

1:55 to 2:07: Poems from Portugal, (Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo)

1:56 - Não um sonho (Not a Dream, Manuel Antonio)

1:56:50 - Aqui na Terra (Here on Earth, José Saramago)

1:57:50 - Comigo (With Me, Alvaro de Campos)

1:59:30 - Turismo (Hilário dos Santos)

2:01:20 - O amigo (The Friend, Alexandre O´Neill )

2:02:20 - Adeus (Farewell, Eugénio de Andrade)

2:04 - Portugal (Jorge de Sousa Braga)

2:09 to 2:31: Presentation of the site "WorldPoems.org": Manuel Loureiro (“Árvore” school) and Xabier Prado

2:11: The first time we enter the site the poems appear randomly

2:13 :Example of a poem: “Lágrimas de Preta” (Black´s Tears, António Gedeão)

2:14: Search y country (example: “Cuba”):all 3 poems appear

Selecting one: “A Emma” (José Martí)

2:17: Search window: the word “Olive” presents us the poem “We´ll Plant Olive Trees” (Plantaremos Olivos, from Federico Mayor Zaragoza)

2: 19: Message presenting the website, jointly by the National Coordinators from Portugal and Spain

2:22 - Proposal for an international spreading action in order to add more countries.

2:24 - “Countries”: links to second-level sites, by countries

2:25 - Portugal: 10 poems, Spain (by autonomous regions). Ex: Galicia

2:27 - Explanation of the development process followed by the school “Árvore” (Horácio Lourenço)

2: 28 - Aplication for cell phones

2:29 - Explanatory texts for the relationship between every poem and the UNESCO-ASP study themes.

2:31 to 2:41: Music performance - Professional Music School from Espinho

Classic guitar, pieces

2:42 to 3:04: Musical performance from Galicia (bagpipes and songs)

2:43: Anthem of the Ancient Galician Kingdom (pair of bagpipes, LS)

2:45- A saia da Carolina (Carolina´s skirt, traditional Galician song) - LS

2:48: Caminhos (Ways, song from Brazil) - LS

2:53 to 2:56: UNESCO-ASP in stanzas - AN

2:56 to 3:05:Final feast (tambourines,. LS)

2: 56 - Baila Ti

2:59 - O Galo canta

3:03 - Pandeiretada

Images from the event (by the IES Luis Seoane of Pontevedra):

more images, by Angela Marques: